Kaiser Healthcare Cost Chart With and Without Reform Legislation

As usual, I found a good nugget over at Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog:

Makes the Repooplicans look like liars, doesn’t it?

Joe Must Go! Sign the Petition!

PETITION:

“Any Democratic senators — including Joe Lieberman — who support a Republican attempt to block a vote on health care reform should be stripped of their leadership titles. Americans deserve a clean up-or-down vote on health care reform that includes a public option.” 

Sign The Petition Here.

Hey Obama, I’m Talking To You: Quit Being A Weenie. Put Your Spine On And Do The Job You Were Elected To Do.

I voted for you, Barack.  And even given your spineless showing thus far, and the same choices that we had in November of 2008 I would vote for you again.

But honestly, I’m pissed off.  Just like Bob Cesca.  He’s pissed off too.  And we’re not the only ones.

Your own party is starting to see red.  What the hell is going on?

Why aren’t you putting your spine on and exercising the power your position affords?  Why are kissing the collective asses of the GOP? 

And the what the f~@k is up with Joe Lieberman?  We didn’t elect him President.  We elected you.

We deserve better.  We deserve hope and change.  Just the way you promised during your campaign.

photo du jour: Crab Nebula

 

The Crab Nebula, one of the most studied objects in the sky.  X-ray data from Chandra provide significant clues to the workings of this mighty cosmic “generator”, which is producing energy at the rate of 100,000 suns.

Picture:  AP / NASA

Former Chair of “Connecticut For Lieberman” is no longer for Lieberman

h/t Mudflats

If you want to get rid of Lieberman too, click here.

Barbara Boxer Takes A Swing At “The Impotent White Men’s Club”

“The men who have brought us this don’t single out a procedure that’s used by a man, or a drug that is used by a man, that involves his reproductive health care and say they have to get a special rider. There’s nothing in this amendment that says if a man some days wants to buy Viagra, for example, that his pharmaceutical coverage cannot cover it, that he has to buy a rider. I wouldn’t support that. And they shouldn’t support going after a woman using her own private funds for her reproductive health care. Is it fair to say to a man you’re going to have to buy a rider to buy Viagra and this will be public information that could be accessed? No, I don’t support that. I support a man’s privacy, just as I support a woman’s privacy.”

h/t Bob Cesca

Gang-Rapists from Richmond High School plead Not Guilty

Okay, so all these losers plead not guilty.

Now our tax payer dollars are going to pay to defend them, because you KNOW they don’t have two cents to rub together, much less pay for their own defense.

It just gets better and better.

Nice system.

Love it.

Why don’t their loser parents pay for their defense?  Oh!  That’s right!  They are LOSERS, and they don’t have any money either!  Ever thought about, I don’t know… getting a job?!

Adding Troops Was The Least Worst Option

I don’t think we should have gone to war in the first place.  I’m talking to you, Bush and Cheney. 

But now that we’re there how do we get out?  How do we make sure that the troops that are there are as safe as you can be in a war?

And on a somewhat different subject, why does anyone listen to anything that Dick Cheney has to say?  Shouldn’t he be incarcerated?  Or euthanized?

That said, here is an excerpt from Obama’s speech last night.

“…we must make it clear to every man, woman and child around the world who lives under the dark cloud of tyranny that America will speak out on behalf of their human rights, and tend to the light of freedom, and justice, and opportunity, and respect for the dignity of all peoples. That is who we are. That is the moral source of America’s authority.

Since the days of Franklin Roosevelt, and the service and sacrifice of our grandparents, our country has borne a special burden in global affairs. We have spilled American blood in many countries on multiple continents. We have spent our revenue to help others rebuild from rubble and develop their own economies. We have joined with others to develop an architecture of institutions – from the United Nations to NATO to the World Bank – that provide for the common security and prosperity of human beings.

We have not always been thanked for these efforts, and we have at times made mistakes. But more than any other nation, the United States of America has underwritten global security for over six decades – a time that, for all its problems, has seen walls come down, markets open, billions lifted from poverty, unparalleled scientific progress, and advancing frontiers of human liberty.

For unlike the great powers of old, we have not sought world domination. Our union was founded in resistance to oppression. We do not seek to occupy other nations. We will not claim another nation’s resources or target other peoples because their faith or ethnicity is different from ours. What we have fought for – and what we continue to fight for – is a better future for our children and grandchildren, and we believe that their lives will be better if other peoples’ children and grandchildren can live in freedom and access opportunity.

As a country, we are not as young – and perhaps not as innocent – as we were when Roosevelt was President. Yet we are still heirs to a noble struggle for freedom. Now we must summon all of our might and moral suasion to meet the challenges of a new age.

In the end, our security and leadership does not come solely from the strength of our arms. It derives from our people – from the workers and businesses who will rebuild our economy; from the entrepreneurs and researchers who will pioneer new industries; from the teachers that will educate our children, and the service of those who work in our communities at home; from the diplomats and Peace Corps volunteers who spread hope abroad; and from the men and women in uniform who are part of an unbroken line of sacrifice that has made government of the people, by the people, and for the people a reality on this Earth.”

It’s a thankless job.  Should anyone be doing it?